Comment on Moderator abuse: Request for review and removal of Decoy321@lemmy.world

• Grumpus_Maximus@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You’re missing the context and therefore completely reversing the point of the meme.

  Trump saw the images from Ceuta and immediately turned a humanitarian/migration crisis into political propaganda. He called it an “invasion,” said Spain “doesn’t know what to do,” warned that America would look the same if Democrats won, and even said Republicans should use the images of Ceuta in the midterm campaign.

  That rhetoric is what this meme is making fun of.

  The LOTR image is deliberately taking Trump’s “foreign invasion” framing to its absurd conclusion: Oh, an invasion? So apparently Trump thinks Ceuta looks like Helm’s Deep with a giant enemy army at the gates.

  I’m not comparing migrants to evil orcs. I’m mocking the racist/xenophobic rhetoric that portrays migrants as a hostile invading army in the first place.

  You can argue that the satire wasn’t obvious enough without the Trump context. That’s fair. But once you actually know the context, treating the literal LOTR image as my view of migrants gets the joke completely backwards. The dehumanizing “invading enemy” framing is precisely what the meme is ridiculing.

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  • ieh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So basically you’re saying the meme should have had “/s” and didn’t, and now you’re upset that people missed the sarcasm because they didn’t understand context not provided.

    Well, that just means the “/s” was needed. Context was needed.

    There’s a reason Poe’s Law exists. You just ran afoul of it.

    I wonder why when others posted explaining why this was racist, and in my own comments to you, that you did address that earlier. :shrug:

    So perhaps you can now, at least, understand why it might appear racist without the proper context, and why the mod took the action they did. And why that action was justified, given the lack of context.

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